701: Awareness, Actions, Vulnerabilities, Engagements: Communicate Effectively and Design Your Mind to Be Kind with Elizabeth Barry

Elizabeth Barry is an experienced speaker, author, and entrepreneur. She has curated 17 TEDx talks and coached numerous speakers. As an author, Elizabeth has published books on vulnerability and effective communication. Her upcoming book, "Design Your Mind to Be Kind," focuses on three habits of effective communicators and seven personalities. Today, Elizabeth discusses the importance of lifelong learning in communication, listening, and speaking one's truth kindly.

We all need to be a life long learner when it comes to communicating, listening, speaking out truth, saying what we mean and meaning what we say. 

It's all about being brave and courageous to live in our moment of truth but to speak it kindly.

  • Its all about designing your mind to be kind through  our COMMUNIICATION HABITS.
  • Its based in nature,there are macrophotographies and photographies of wildlife like birds and insects credit to @wildjerseycity instagram account.
  • It features more on nature of birds which is related to the 3 habits of effective communicators.

The 3 habits of effective communicators

To follow the catch - first method

  • Catching our selves are really difficult especially if our relationship and communication breaks down.
  • We need to learn to catch our selves, our words, our phrase eetc
  • The idea of this catch is it comes to AWARENESS and ACTIONS

AWARENESS - can help us to understand we don't have to say things in the meaning ways, in the way that we wish to and take it back to the real time.

ACTION - Awareness is nothing without action. You apologize in real time or holding our words in especially hurting people

To fly above yourself - just like the birds wings

  • touching your weaknesses humility and vulnerabilities 
  • it happens when you are in the moment of stress, obstacles,  challenges of communication breakdown see how you react
  • real time practical tip: fly above your self meaning think of your greatest mentor

Use your words wisely- like birds singing nicely

  • tips to lessen our speaking, listening and taking care to our selves
  • gaining real time engagement
  • in a conversation, thinking how worthy are you in corporate or in entrepreneur

These habits will help to reflect oneself to become better person and communicator. Transformation is not just sharing quotes, memes and articles through social media. It needs WORK.

Quotes

“We all need to be lifelong learners when it comes to communicating, listening, speaking our truth, saying what we mean, and meaning what we say. It's about being brave and courageous enough to live in our moment of truth, but to speak it kindly.” - Elizabeth Barry

“Communication is a very complicated thing. It's a deeply layered way of coming into our adulthood, our career, our career transition, our best selves, or what I call a life fulfilled.” - Elizabeth Barry

“There's no need to feel shame. There's always a wonderful opportunity to say to yourself, 'I am going to be vulnerable to own that mistake. I'm going to be vulnerable to own that flaw, and I'm going to do better next time.’ Because that's the practice of it.” - Elizabeth Barry

Takeaways

04:04 Becoming aware of one's words, phrases, and mannerisms is crucial for effective communication and self-improvement.

05:51 Gaining humility and self-awareness by observing one's reactions from an imaginary standpoint can help improve communication in challenging situations.

09:29 Choosing words wisely, both when speaking to others and to oneself, can reflect self-worth and integrity.

12:32 Continuous self-reflection and a willingness to learn and improve are essential for enhancing communication skills.

14:01 Vulnerability and kindness are key elements in effective and meaningful communication.

Resources

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